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The following events took place on August 4. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 45 events. Showing 31 - 45.

• 1964

  American civil rights movement: Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June 21.
• 1964

  Gulf of Tonkin incident: U.S. destroyers USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy report coming under attack in the Gulf of Tonkin.
• 1965

  The Constitution of the Cook Islands comes into force, giving the Cook Islands self-governing status within New Zealand.
• 1969

  Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, American representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuân Thuỷ begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail.
• 1974

  A bomb explodes in the Italicus Express train at San Benedetto Val di Sambro, Italy, killing 12 people and wounding 22.
• 1975

  The Japanese Red Army takes more than 50 hostages at the AIA Building housing several embassies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The hostages include the U.S. consul and the Swedish Chargé d'affaires. The gunmen win the release of five imprisoned comrades and fly with them to Libya.
• 1977

  U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.
• 1984

  The Republic of Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.
• 1987

  The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to present controversial issues “fairly”.
• 1991

  The Greek cruise ship MTS Oceanos sinks off the Wild Coast of South Africa.
• 1993

  A federal judge sentences Los Angeles Police Department officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell to 30 months in prison for violating motorist Rodney King’s civil rights.
• 1995

  Operation Storm begins in Croatia.
• 2002

  Soham murders: Ten-year-old school girls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells go missing from the town of Soham, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.
• 2006

  A massacre is carried out by Sri Lankan government forces, killing 17 employees of the French INGO Action Against Hunger (known internationally as Action Contre la Faim, or ACF).
• 2007

  NASA’s Phoenix spacecraft is launched.

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